by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 31, 2021 | Metal Inside(r) Home Quarantine
Metal Inside(r) Home Quarantine is Metal Insider’s new column during this time of isolation due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We asked artists five questions on what’s been keeping them busy ranging from their favorite movies, food they’ve been eating, music...
by Metal Insider | Dec 30, 2021 | Top 15
The 2021 entries are in for team Metal Insider’s best albums of 2021. In case you missed it, you can check out lists from Chris, Smitty, Kyle, Zenae, Bram, Matt, and Siegfried. While all lists are relatively different, we took an additional step to combine...
by Mark Smitty Neal | Dec 30, 2021 | Lists, Top 10
Here are my picks for 2021. Top Ten Albums of the Year: 10) Carcass, Torn Arteries (Nuclear Blast) Key Track: “Kelly’s Meat Emporium” 09) The Bronx, VI (Cooking Vinyl) Key Track:...
by Kyle Finlan | Dec 30, 2021 | Top 10
2021 has been quite a dynamic year, with many ups and downs. One of the highlights have been the absolute deluge of new music that has been released in the past 12 months! Perhaps this onslaught of new things to fill our earholes with is being driven by the...
by Zenae Zukowski | Dec 29, 2021 | Lists, Top 20
2021 has been another challenging year, but we saw a return of live music. Artists have once again found more creative ways to virtually bring live music, such as Epica’s unique cinematic event with Omega Alive. Many have unveiled powerful new tunes via LP and...
by Bram Teitelman | Dec 23, 2021 | Top 10
10) Deafheaven, Infinite Granite (Sargent House) Deafheaven has been divisive for years. Just the mere mention of them sends trve kvlt metalheads into conniptions, but they’ve always been interesting, and it’s been cool watching them move more towards...